I know I don’t usually talk TV, but I still watch it religiously, in between screenings. And we’ve got to convince Jemaine Clement (and his comedy partner Bret McKenzie) to BRING CONCHORDS BACK! When I was recently interviewing Clement for Gentlemen Broncos [see below], the fate of The Conchords inevitably came up. Unfortunately, according to Clement, a third season doesn’t sound promising:
“Yeah, we probably won’t,” Clement says. “It would be a hard decision to make, and we haven’t totally called it off. We’ll be deciding in the next month, but it doesn’t seem like it. After the pilot, we couldn’t imagine doing a season, and when we got the season, it’s was like the worst news we could get. We got to make more of these? It’s sooo hard to get through one because you have to record two albums worth of material, and write a sitcom at the same time it would take to do an album. And the next time, we have to write the songs as well, it’s even harder. So, I don’t know, it doesn’t seem worth it for us, I guess. Because if we do a really great job on the third season, it’d be like, ‘The Conchords are back on form!’”
But you’ll keep making music, right? “You mean with Bret? I suppose so. We don’t really have long-term plans, it’s just whatever the next thing is. We’ve never been able to answer that question.”
OK, if the TV thing is a difficult process, I have a suggestion: Do a movie. That way you guys can get it out in one fell swoop. Whattya say? Yes? Oh please, oh please, oh please … This song from Season 1 is probably my favorite: